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I've spent over 25 hours in Gothic Remake—here are my top 20 quick tips to survive The Colony
Playing Gothic Remake for the first time might be a bit surprising for fans of recent sicko RPGs like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 or Dragon's Dogma 2. Gothic doesn't have any hunger mechanics or convoluted save systems, but it does like to kick your ass in combat constantly when you first arrive in The Colony. bettingx.club
Enemies do a lot of damage, your weapons suck, and you have no armor, so fighting a pack of hungry molerats or giant birds is not the 'baby's first quest' difficulty it would be in another game. This isn't the Elder Scrolls, where you can just walk into a cave and come out clad in full plate—armor is rare and valuable, so it requires quest progression and lots of money to acquire and upgrade.
And frankly, you're a good-for-nothing convict who doesn't know shit, so you've got to pay just to learn basic skills. It can feel a little grindy at first, but ultimately I found my 25 hours with the game a satisfying experience as I scraped and fought for everything I had.
Gothic 1 Remake tips
1. Get a bow
When you first arrive in The Colony you can grab a bow in the Goods Exchange to your left. Sneak into the shack, grab the key from the chest, then use it to unlock the cage in the lower area and steal the bow. Spend your arrows wisely.
2. Save often, seriously, even more than you think
Gothic will kick your ass often, but it does at least have a decent save system. Save often and quicksave with F5 for when you unexpectedly get mauled by wolves while out exploring.
3. Grab everything, junk included
Ore nuggets are your currency in Gothic, but it's worth grabbing mushrooms, herbs, tools, and even cups and plates early on—basically anything you can sell to earn ore. Especially as your inventory is effectively limitless.
4. Only fight one enemy at a time
Getting into fights with multiple enemies will murder you, especially early on when you have no armor. Aggro them one at a time or run away until only one is following you. You can also lock on to enemies with Tab.
5. Hit enemies as they're charging
While you can block with Ctrl or dodge with Alt, you'll still take damage while blocking. Your best bet is to hit enemies with a stab as they charge you or slam (with Q or E). Wolves, snappers, and adult scavengers will jump at you, so you might want to dodge their initial attack first.
6. Cook food to heal
Grub is your best bet for cheap healing early on. Gather meat from molerats and scavengers, cook it up in a pan, and equip it to your hotbar. If you complete Snaf's Recipe in the Old Camp, he'll give you three Meatbug Ragout daily to chow down on.
7. Get a bed and a home
There's actually a free house in the Old Camp where you can rest up and pass time—it's the shack with the red awning just by the upper end of the arena. Also check the chest inside to start The Forgotten Recipe quest.
8. Buy a map
You can buy a map of the Old Camp, but getting one of the overall Colony region is your priority. You can buy one on the cheap from Dexter in the cloth-covered marketplace behind the castle. Open your map with M and make sure to place markers for points of interest.
9. Take advantage of NPCs
Whether using other characters to fight monsters or escort you, or inciting someone to violence so you can mug them—use NPCs as tools. I got my incredibly OP sword by getting minecrawlers to down a paladin so I could steal his stuff. You're a criminal, right?
10. Don't piss people off
If you tried to joke with the gate guard at the Old Camp, you've likely learned this lesson already. Don't choose snarky dialogue options with people or they will beat you up and rob you, or sometimes kill you.
11. Learn magic early
Magic is really powerful early on, especially if you're struggling in combat. If you complete The Price of Magic quest in the Old Camp, you can get a fire bolt rune which lets you launch fiery projectiles. Just remember that smoking drugs is the cheapest way to regen your mana.
12. Grab your free daily stuff
You can get three Northern Dark drugs for free every day from Fortuno at his store in the Swamp Camp, or buy cheap Green Novice from Dexter in the Old Camp marketplace. As with Snaf's food, each camp gives away free daily items, so make sure to collect them.
13. Learn a money-making skill
Grab a skill that helps you earn ore, such as one-handed smithing from Huno in the Old Camp, lockpicking from Fingers in the Casting Shadows quest, or a hunting skill from Shax, who you meet on your way to the Old Camp. You'll need ore and learning points, which you get ten of every time you level up.
14. You can also mine money
In the Old Mine in the northwest corner of The Colony, you can mine ore nuggets from glowing blue nodes if you grab a pickaxe. This isn't the most lucrative, but it'll get you enough to unlock a skill. Make sure to grab the ore nuggets on the ground around the other miners, too.
15. Don't stray too far from the path
Make sure not to stray too far from the path when you're first exploring. Enemy density is rather high since it's a small-ish map (remember tip #4). You can always jump in water to break enemy pursuit, but also consider unlocking the Scavenger mount to move quicker.
16. Join a camp
There are three camps in Gothic and you can only join one of them. Diego will help you get into the Old Camp, Baal Parvez in the cloth-covered marketplace will escort you to the Swamp Camp, and Mordrag in the same area can take you to the New Camp during the Out of Sight quest for Thorus.
17. Upgrade your armor
One of the advantages of joining a camp is that you'll get a suit of armor. It's a bit basic at first, but you can upgrade it at certain blacksmiths by paying ore. I upgraded my Old Camp armor with Fisk in the marketplace.
18. Buff your strength and dexterity with Diego
When you arrive in the Old Camp, speak to Thorus at the gate, and then Diego to start the Casting Shadows quest, you can ask him to train you, converting learning points into strength or dex to use new weapons.
19. And increase your mana with Cronos
Similarly, you can convert learning points into mana with Cronos, the Water Mage, in the New Camp. Just look for the big lake on the map in the west and find the Water Mage hideout at the back of the settlement cave.
20. Use the glossary
If ever in doubt about how something works, open your menu, select the glossary tab, and select the bottom "tutorials" option. There's tons of useful advice here if you're struggling to get to grips with a mechanic or system.
Gothic Remake Casting Shadows: Join the Old Camp
Gothic Remake map: How to get one
How to pass time in Gothic Remake: Get a free shack
Gothic Remake The Vanished Warder: Find Nek
Gothic Remake The Forgotten Recipe: Good eats
Emilio Gay rides his luck but passes his test of temperament for England | Andy Bull
Test debutant opener enjoyed a few breaks but showed he could handle himself when the odds are against him to offer hope for a longer stay in role
Emilio Gay lived three lives on Friday. The first ended in the 14th over, when he was on 20 and he leaned forward towards a ball from Matt Henry that zipped off the pitch, caught the edge of his bat and spat through the gap between first and second slip. The second finished in the 16th, when he had 24 and he played and missed another of Henry’s deliveries that jagged back and whacked into his front pad. The umpire gave him the benefit of the doubt, and New Zealand chose not to review it, a decision they were left regretting when moments later the TV replays showed they had been just as wrong as he had.
The third, and last, came later in the afternoon session, when Gay had reached 57, the highest score anyone had yet made in a match where batting has been almost insuperably difficult. He reached for a ball from Nathan Smith that held its line and edged a fine catch behind to Tom Blundell. This time Gay had to go. He rolled his head back in regret and stared at the sky a while, no doubt asking why he had allowed himself to be suckered into playing a delivery which would have passed harmlessly by wide of off-stump, then turned and made the slow walk back towards the Long Room doors.
Continue reading...The console wars are back on, baby: Xbox CEO says 'we have to be very thoughtful' about console exclusivity on future releases
"Well, I guess we won the console war," PC Gamer's Evan Lahti declared back in 2020. It was a time of clear skies and hope: Microsoft had embraced Steam, Sony was bringing first-party games to PC, and we were all waving flags and pounding vodka shots atop silent tanks in Red Square. Metaphorically, anyway.
But now it looks like the fight is back on. Sony is backing away from its strategy of releasing PlayStation exclusives on PC, and now Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has hinted that Xbox is reconsidering its own approach to exclusives.
"We're the number two publisher in the world and in order to be a great publisher, you must have your games reach large audiences to play," Sharma said during a recent Bloomberg interview. "At the same time, we're increasingly becoming a platform. In order to be a platform, you must have exclusive content and services. And so, we're looking at that very closely. I think that we have to be very thoughtful about each title on how we want to think about it and learn from similar cases in the industry, and that's what we're doing."
Like the unceremonious axing of the 'This is an Xbox' marketing campaign, Sharma's statement is a clear repudiation of former Xbox president Sarah Bond, who said flat-out in October 2025 that "the idea of locking [games] to one store or one device is antiquated for most people."
A potential refocus on exclusives is also obviously more about Xbox's dealings with PlayStation than PC. Shortly after Bond's comment, Microsoft announced its Halo remake for PlayStation, and man, it was over: As PC Gamer's Morgan Park put it at the time, "Though he shared joint custody with PC gaming in moments, Master Chief was Xbox ... His olive green armor practically was the console's logo in superhuman form. Now he's just the guy from Halo."
But now it sounds like maybe it's not as over as we thought. The direct impact on PC gamers may not be all that great, especially given Sharma's April acknowledgement that "our presence on PC isn't strong enough."
But we've all heard that one before—maybe more than twice, depending on how long you've been on this ride. If Microsoft really is "recommitting" to Xbox as a console, I don't think that, for instance, a future shift back toward more timed-exclusivity windows for big releases is beyond the question. Rockstar is holding back on a PC release of Grand Theft Auto 6 because PC players aren't GTA's "core" audience, which is baffling but also reflects the ongoing console-centric viewpoint of many game industry decision-makers.
It sounds like the situation at Xbox is still very fluid, as they say in polite circles when nobody really knows what's going on, and what actually comes of it is anybody's guess. But those heady days of inter-platform peace and prosperity, with the PC as gaming's great unifier, sure do look to be over, and one way or another, some of that fallout is going to land on us.
The PC Gaming Show returns Sunday, June 7 at 12 pm PDT! Visit the show's Steam page to wishlist your most anticipated games and get more information on how to tune in for the big reveals.
TikTok-spøkefugl arrestert etter å ha hellet rensevæske på sushi
En 43 år gammel TikTok-"spøkefugl" har blitt arrestert i Japan etter å ha lagt ut en video av seg selv der han heller rengjøringsvæske på sushi på en restaurant. Hendelsen skjedde på Hama Sushi-kjeden, som driver en såkalt conveyor-belt sushi-restaurant, et sted der sushien beveger seg rundt på et transportbånd og kundene selv kan plukke den opp og spise så mye de vil.
Ifølge politiet ble mannen identifisert kort tid etter at videoen ble lagt ut på TikTok, og han er arrestert mistenkt for å ha forstyrret forretningsdriften. Han har i ettertid innrømmet handlingen i avhør, og motivet skal ha vært å få flere visninger. Han hevder også at flasken ikke inneholdt rengjøringsvæske i det hele tatt, men heller vanlig vann.
Restaurantkjeden har fordømt mannens handlinger og kunngjort at de samarbeider fullt ut med politiet, samt at de vurderer rettslige skritt.
Hendelsen føyer seg inn i rekken av en rekke høyprofilerte "prank"-hendelser der folk har filmet seg selv mens de manipulerer mat på ulike måter på restauranter i Japan for å skape viralt innhold.
How to complete The Cult's Recipe in Gothic Remake
Completing The Cult's Recipe in Gothic Remake is one of the necessary steps in impressing Diego enough to get you a recommendation to join the Old Camp. In this quest, Dexter asks you to head all the way to the Swamp Camp and steal Cor Kalom's recipe for creating mystical hallucinogens.
The trickiest part of this quest is actually getting to the Swamp Camp, since it's a dangerous route filled with enemies who'll kill you in one hit thanks to your lack of armor. So, here's how to get there safely, find the recipe, and even lockpick the chest containing it.
How to get to the Swamp Camp in Gothic Remake
After Dexter tasks you with stealing Cor Kalom's recipe, you'll have to find a way to the Swamp Camp. Before you do, though, make sure you have a couple of lockpicks—you can buy these from Mordrag in the same market area as Dexter if you head east past the fire pit towards the arena and look for him to your left, sitting on a bench in front of a shack. I'd also recommend grabbing a map of the Colony.
Now, you'll want to speak to Baal Parvez, the cultist with the face tattoos in the market area by Dexter, since he'll offer to escort you to the Swamp Camp and it's a dangerous journey. Follow and let him fight the harder enemies, though make sure you're close enough to get some XP. When you arrive in the camp, tell the Templars at the entrance you want to join, then head inside and ask Lester to show you to "Cor Kalom's Laboratory".
How to lockpick Cor Kalom's chest in Gothic Remake
The video above picks up where Lester drops you off. Head up the spiral staircase to the top to find the laboratory and Cor Kalom. His recipe is in the locked chest in the same room as the lab. The video shows how to pick the lock, and for some reason, Cor Kalom and his assistant don't really seem to mind. It doesn't matter too much if you're planning to join the Old Camp anyway, which if you're doing this quest, you are.
Grab the Old Recipe, then follow the route that you and Baal Parvez took to get back to the Old Camp—if you can't remember, use your colony map by pressing M. Make sure to stick to the path and keep running to avoid enemies. Give Dexter the recipe and he'll agree to put in a good word with Diego.
Gothic Remake Casting Shadows: Join the Old Camp
How to pass time in Gothic Remake: Get a free shack
How to lockpick in Gothic Remake: Crime pays
Gothic Remake The Vanished Warder: Find Nek
Gothic Remake The Forgotten Recipe: Good eats